Autopause on many garmins can be set either when you have stopped, or you can set it to pause if your pace drops to a certain level. I make extensive use of neither of them. My times in training really aren't that critical, and in a race all I need is time from A to B

Hi ran the Winchester 10K myself today and my chip time is 19 seconds slower than my watch. My watch works fine. If you look at the recetimesystems website everybodys race time is the same as their chip time. I think they are giving out the start gun time not the chip time.

I ran this one too, couldn't see any timing mats at the start line when lining up so I assumed it would be gun-to-chip so started my watch accordingly, and my watch time matched my result, same for a clubmate too.

As mentioned above, everybody's chip time and gun time were identical on the timing site results so it obviously was gun to chip. That does not bother me for a low key event like this, as long as it has accurate results over an accurately measured distance, but I understand why it would bother many others. Organisers should make it clear in advance what timing method will be used though, so people know what they are paying for; I don't think that they did in this case.

I agree Ballesteros..........when chip timing is advertised you assume its start to finish........it annoys me when its gun timiung only as this is there just for the organisers benefit at the finishing chute and not for the competitors benefit........

because if you know its gun to chip then us slower runners will be fighting the fast runners for a place on the start line............and so bugger up their race as well..............when normally the majority of runners will take their appropriate place in the line for our pace...

It used to be the case that there were some chip timing systems that couldn't cope with hundreds of runners crossing the start mat in a short space of time, so it would either lose your start time completely or it would only register you as starting quite a while after you'd actually crossed the line. So it was only useful in a gun time capacity, which makes recording finishers easier but otherwise is of little benefit to the runner.

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